Impact of the Black Death
Week 5 paper for HIS 103The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague or Pasteurella pestis had several impacts on the population in its active years. The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague or Pasteurella pestis had several impacts on the population in its active years. Theses effects summarize to a debilitating disease with physical as well as internal health effects, it affected more countries than common knowledge tells us, and it forced a significant decrease in the population. 1. Our Text gives me detailed information on the population effects that the plague had on not only Europe but China and Egypt as well. 2. This website has information about the plagues impact on England’s social structure also known as the Peasants Revolt. 3. This text has information about the origins of the disease and how it travelled. 4. Has the religious aspect on why people were effected.(Islam) 5. This book while it seems simple has information from every aspect of the bubonic plague and its effects. 6. This book brings to light effects the plague had on agriculture, architecture, the church, education, where these effects took place; such as, Asia, England, France, Germany, Italy, et c. It also breaks down the mortality rates by overall count and age range. It also has the forms of treatment the people used to fight the disease.

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Article 32
1-1-2007
The Impact of the BlackDeath
Zachary Peschke
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Peschke: The Impact of the BlackDeath
The Impact of the BlackDeath
by Zachary Peschke
(History 1110)
A
t the beginning of the 14th century, Europe was in the midst of a revitalization. The
agricultural revolution had made food more plentiful than before. More land was being
cultivated and life was more optimistic than it had been for centuries. Despite a famine from
1315-1317 and the onset of the Hundred Year’s War, the 14th century continued to be a time of
growth in Europe. This growth came to an end in 1347 though, with the emergence of the BlackDeath. According to Norman Cantor, “The BlackDeath of 1348-49 was the greatest biomedical
disaster...

...The BlackDeath, also known as the Black Plague, or the Bubonic Plague killed one third of the population of Europe during its reign in the 13th and 14th centuries. The arrival of this plague set the scene for years of strife and heroism. Leaving the social and
Economic aspect in a standstill. The phantom of death became a subject of art, music and folklore and it influenced the consciousness of the people. Theimpact of this mass killer caused enormous chaos and havoc to the medieval society because of its unknown origin, the unknown causes and preventions, its deathly symptoms and its breakdown of orderly life, therefore religion was greatly affected and changed.
In 1347, a Tartar army under Kipchak khan Janibeg had been besieging the Genoese cathedral city and trading ports of Caffa on the Black Sea for a year. A deadly, ruthless plague hit the besieging army and was killing off soldiers at an unstoppable rate. It was plain to Janibeg Khan that he must call off the siege. But before he decided to retreat, he wanted to give the defenders a taste of what his army was suffering. So Janibeg used giant catapults to hurl the rotting corpses of the plagued victims over the walls of the town. By this means the infection spread among the Genoese defenders. Before long the Genoese were dying from the plague as fast as the Tartars on the outside. A few who thought themselves...

...In "The BlackDeath" the author Phillip Ziegler attempts to fully describe the Plague that struck Europe in 1338 and remained until 1665. The year of the great Plague of London Ziegler tries to give an unbiased account of the Plague by compiling information from contradictory sources. Ziegler begins the book with the Tartans catapulting diseased corpses into Genoese as the Genoese escape back to Europe. Following this, the author provides some insight into the Plague in Italy, Germany, and France, in which he highlights the persecution of Jews, who became the scapegoat for the Plague in Germany. The majority of the book discusses the Plague in England, dealing with the people that died.
Ziegler doesn't argue an opinion of his findings. He openly admits that he has done no original research. Instead, he presents a collection of materials and draws some conclusions based on their findings. Ziegler's intention in writing "The BlackDeath', is to provide an accurate an unbiased account of the plague that struck Europe in 1338, and to appeal to human emotions through eye witness accounts.
Ziegler begins with different accounts on how the plague arrived in Europe. After presenting a few ideas, poisonous fumes, or unburned or unburied corpses, Ziegler finds the real truth of the plagues origin in a bacteria known as Pasteur Ella Pestis. Pasteur Ella Pestis, which forms itself within the siles of the dead corpses, head...

...eatLandon Wood
Turner
AP World History
1 November 2012
AP World History Book Report
Summary: The BlackDeath, by Philip Ziegler, covers the epidemic that spread throughout Eurasia around 1348. The book mostly focuses on England and how the disease affected this area. The book also covers other portions of Europe such as France, Italy, and Germany but not as in depth. Ziegler uses the research of many historians to piece together what occurred during this time of grief. Ziegler starts off the book explaining the origins and nature of the plague. He explains how the tartar attacked the port city of Genoa by catapulting diseased corpses in the city’s compound. The Genoese decided to flee and went further north, which caused the spread of disease into Europe. Progressing farther into the novel, Ziegler examines the other countries in Europe. He points out the raid on Jews during the time in Germany because the Jews were blamed for the cause of the plague. He also mentions the Flagellant movement in central Europe. Members who practiced Flagellantism whipped themselves in order to clear themselves of their sins; it was practiced to keep the plague away. Next, Ziegler starts to describe England. He splits England into several different regions and uses statistical data to determine different percentages and numbers. In this section, he writes down many details such as how many people died in the area and how the wage levels and prices were...

...The BlackDeath
1.A virulent plague strikes Europe in the 14th century in addition to its current over-population and malnutrition problems.
Preconditions and Causes of the Plague
1.Nine-tenths of the people worked the land in the 14th century of Europe.
2.The 3 field system efficiently rose the production of crops however it was still not enough to meet the demands of the growing
population.
3.Estimation shows the European population doubling within the years 1000 and 3000 outgrowing the food supply.
4.In addition to food shortage there was a shortage of jobs, and many Europeans faced extreme hunger conditions.
5.During 1315-1317 crop failures result in the largest famine of the Middle Ages.
6.Populated urban towns and areas, like the industrial towns of the Netherlands suffered the most under these conditions.
7.Overpopulation, economic depression, famine, and bad health coming together for decades surely weakened Europe’s population
making it more susceptible to impending plague.
8.The BlackDeath was called so because of the black discoloration of the skin. It travelled from Asia to Europe through trade routes.
9.The fleas on rats held the plague and ships that travelled from the Black Sea to Europe were the likely cause of the plague
spreading to Europe.
10.The BlackDeath first began appearing in Constantinople in 1346...

...﻿THE BLACKDEATH
Matthew Brown
P.1
April 17, y
Around 1339 in northwestern Europe, the population was beginning to outgrow the food supply and a severe economic crisis began to take place. The winters were extremely cold and the summers were dry. Due to this extreme weather, very low crops yielded and those that grew were dying. Inflation became a common occurrence and as famine broke out, people began to worry. The time period of approximately 1339 to 1346 is now known as the famine before the plague (history). These seven bad years of weather and famine lead to the greatest plague of all times. In 1347, endemic to Asia, The BlackDeath began spreading throughout Western Europe. Over the time of three years, the plague killed one third of the population in Europe with roughly twenty five million people dead (bbc.co). The BlackDeath killed more Europeans than any other endemic or war up to that time, greatly impacting the Church, family life, and the economy. These three social pillars were changed forever.
When the plague first reached Europe, people panicked. In hopes of survival, many began to abandon what they had and moved to villages and country sides in hope of fleeing from the disease. “Children abandoned the father, husband abandoned the wife, wife the husband, one brother the other, one sister the other…. Some fled to villas, others to villages in order to get a change...

...Explain the key features of the BlackDeath (1300s) and its impact upon Europe
The BlackDeath (or bubonic plague) had an enormous impact upon Europe in the 1300’s. Some of the key features of the BlackDeath include the origins and spread of the disease around Europe, symptoms and treatments, medieval ideas about what caused it and social, economic and political effects of the BlackDeath.
The origin of the BlackDeath and how it spread were key features on its significant impact on Europe. The great pandemic originated in central Asia where it travelled along the Silk Road and reached the Crimea. In October 1347 a fleet of Genoese ships returning from Crimea to Sicily brought the disease with them. The sailors on board the fleet had gained an unknown sickness and by the time they reached Sicily, many of the sailors were dead or dying. This unknown disease then spread quickly through the west and south of Europe leaving few people alive. From autumn to winter 1348-49, the bubonic plague spread to the north and by 1350 almost all of Britain had been infected by the plague. The spread of the plague is demonstrated in Source 4, a map, which made it useful to research. The source is effective because it illustrates the information clearly so that it is easy to understand. Source 5...

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The BlackDeath in England 1348-1350In 1347 a Genoese ship from Caffa, on the Black Sea, came ashore at Messina, Sicily. The crew of the ship, what few were left alive, carried with them a deadly cargo, a disease so virulent that it could kill in a matter of hours. It is thought that the disease originated in the Far East, and was...